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In 2001 an American Airlines Boeing 777-200ER with Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines was used for the flight tests. [4] Much testing was carried out at Glasgow Industrial Airport, Montana, the airport of Boeing's subsidiary, [5] Montana Aviation Research Company (MARCO). [6]
Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport: P-N 66,669 Seattle: BFI: BFI KBFI King County International Airport (Boeing Field) P-N 18,586 Seattle / Tacoma SEA: SEA KSEA Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: P-L 24,024,908 Spokane: GEG: GEG KGEG Spokane International Airport (Geiger Field) P-S 1,872,781 Walla Walla: ALW: ALW KALW Walla Walla Regional ...
The airport has served as Seattle's official weather recording location since 1945. [82] As of April 2023, Sea-Tac has over 23,000 total workers, including 400 to 500 customs agents and 850 TSA security officers. The airport has 3,800 cameras that are monitored from a control center staffed by Port of Seattle Airport Operations personnel.
The original 777-200 model first entered service in 1995, followed by the extended-range 777-200ER in 1997. [6] The stretched 777-300, which is 33.3 ft (10.1 m) longer, began service in 1998. The longer-range 777-300ER and 777-200LR variants entered service in 2004 and 2006, respectively, while a freighter version, the 777F, debuted in 2009. [6 ...
The number of 777 customers had grown to 25 airlines by June 1997, with 323 aircraft on order. [2] On August 26, 2004, Singapore Airlines followed up with a US$4 billion order for the 777-300ER, including 18 firm orders and 13 options. [3] The combined orders would make the carrier's 777 fleet number 77 when deliveries were complete. [3]
American's wide-body aircraft are all Boeing airliners; however, nearly half of the airline's total fleet consists of Airbus aircraft. American Airlines is the world's largest operator of the 787-8, the smallest variant of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. [5] American exclusively ordered Boeing aircraft throughout the 2000s. [6]
An Emirates 777-300ER in September 2009, showing the circular fuselage profile, dihedral wings, and GE90 turbofan engines, the largest jet engine in service until surpassed by the General Electric GE9X. 777-200ER of American Airlines in July 2007 with Trent 800 engines, extended slats, flaps, and six-wheel landing gear
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passenger flight originating from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea. On the morning of July 6, 2013, the Boeing 777-200ER operating the flight crashed on final approach into San Francisco International Airport in the United States. Of the 307 people on board, 3 died ...